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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 30, 4 February 1874, Page 2

Amongst the applications for the secretaryship to the Acclimatisation Society, was tbe following terse and pithy epistle. (The name of the wriler is omitted): — I see that, you are requiring a secretary for the Auckland Acclimatisation Association ; I beg fo tender my services assuring you that I should suit it, and that it would suit me. I have no testimonials to offer, and my chief qualification is the fact tbat from boyhood I have taken a deep interest in the habits of birds, beasts, and fishes, and what I don't know I can easily find out. — I am, &c, ." Under tbe heading " The Religion we Want," a Boston paper has the following : — We want a religion that bears heavily, not only on the " exceeding sinfulness of sin," but on the exceeding rascality of lying and stealing — a religion that banishes small measures from the country, small baskets from the stall, small pebbles from the cotton-bags, clay from the paper, sand from the sugar, chicory from the coffee, alum from the bread, and water from the milk-cans. The religion that is to save the world will not put all the big strawberries at the top and all the little ODes at the bottom. It will not make one half pair of shoes oi good leather and the other half of poor leather, so tbat the first shall redouud to the maker's credit and the second to his cash. It will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jenkin's kid gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back room of a Boston milliner's shop; nor let a piece of velvet that professes to measure 12 yards come to an untimely end in the tenth; or a spool of sewing-silk that vouches for 20 yards be nipped in the bud at 14|; nor all-wool delains and all- linen handkerchiefs be amalgamated with clandestine cotton; nor coats made of old rags pressed together to tbe unsuspecting pnblic as legal broadcloth. It does not put bricks at five dollars per thousand into chimneys it contracts to build of .seven-dollar material; nor smuggle white pine into floors that have paid for hard pine; nor leave yawning cracks in closets wberejboards ought to join; nor daub the ceilings that ought to be smoothly plastered; nor make window-blinds with slats that cannot B tand the wind, and paint that cannot bear the sun, and fastenings that may be looked at, but are on no account to be touched. The religion^that is going to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not consider that 40 cents returned for 100 cents given is according to the Gospel, though it may be according to law. It looks on a man who has failed in trade, and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief. Under the heading the " Carters' strike," the ' Glasgow Herald ' of November Mtb, reports:— " There is yet no indication of a settlement of the dispute to record. Tho men who are out regain firm, and steps are being taken to enable them to prolong the strike if that course should be found absolutely necessary. Promises of support have beei} received from differ en*; trades, and yesterday morning the local secretary received a communication from the secretary of the London Carmen's Association intimating tbat he was making efforts to seoure tbe aid of the English workmen. The Carters had two meetings yesterday, and at the one held in the morning the advantages of immigration were put before them. This was held in the Home Rule Association Hall, Trongate, and was largely attended. Mr Duncan, an exMayor of Christchurch, and now a member of the Provincial Council, and special immigration agent for Canterbury, New Zealand, addressed the carters. He gave them a glowing account of tbe advantages to be derived from settling in New Zealand, and in confirmation of the happy prospects he held out to immigrants, he read letters from settlers who, having gone out to the new country poor, had now amassed considerable sums, and bore testimony to the benefits tbey enjoyed, and recommended able-bodied men and women to leave the old country and join their fortunate countrymen in their new home. Mr Duncqn, intimated that he would he in Glasgow for a considerable period, and tbat be was prepared to give a free passage to New Zealand to suoh persons as might be considered suitable. On no account he mentioned would men who are given to drink be accepted. Mr Ramsay and Mr Crass also addressed the meetiog and spoke favorably of Mr Duncan's scheme. A vote of thanks to Mr Duncan brought the proceedings to a conclusion." The Girl op the Period —To see her sauntering before one down tb,o broadway, is QDe panorama, ot awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterise her; she never characterises her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She ia bundled, not draped. Sbe is puckered, not folded. i*he struts, she does not sweep. Sbe has not one of the attributes of nature nor qf proper art; She neither soothes the eye like a fljower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope, She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effeots,